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Free Download New Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources: Ideas, Projects, Systems By Alessandro Oltramari, Piek Vossen, Lu Qin (auth.), Alessandro Oltramari, Piek Vossen, Lu Qin, Eduard Hovy (eds.)
2013 | 282 Pages | ISBN: 3642317812 | PDF | 5 MB
In order to exchange knowledge, humans need to share a common lexicon of words as well as to access the world models underlying that lexicon. What is a natural process for a human turns out to be an extremely hard task for a machine: computers can’t represent knowledge as effectively as humans do, which hampers, for example, meaning disambiguation and communication. Applied ontologies and NLP have been developed to face these challenges. Integrating ontologies with (possibly multilingual) lexical resources is an essential requirement to make human language understandable by machines, and also to enable interoperability and computability across information systems and, ultimately, in the Web. This book explores recent advances in the integration of ontologies and lexical resources, including questions such as building the required infrastructure (e.g., the Semantic Web) and different formalisms, methods and platforms for eliciting, analyzing and encoding knowledge contents (e.g., multimedia, emotions, events, etc.). The contributors look towards next-generation technologies, shifting the focus from the state of the art to the future of Ontologies and Lexical Resources. This work will be of interest to research scientists, graduate students, and professionals in the fields of knowledge engineering, computational linguistics, and semantic technologies.

Free Download František Cermák, "Lexical and Semantic Aspects of Proverbs"
English | ISBN: 8024643588 | 2020 | 243 pages | PDF | 1126 KB
This book is linguistic in nature, offering a number of aspects of contemporary languages and their proverbs. Focusing mostly on lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects, the book also explores language corpora findings. Apart from collecting data on proverbs from dozens of languages, there is an effort to map proverbs within a language in a systematic and reliable way. The book will prove useful to paremiologists, lexicographers, and comparative linguists.

Free Download George Anton Kiraz, "Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament: Third Expanded Edition "
English | ISBN: 146324603X | 2024 | 228 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament provides an essential tool to students of Syriac. A frequency-based glossary guides the student through the text of the Syriac New Testament’s most significant terms. In addition, verbal paradigms demystify the language’s structure, fostering a deeper understanding. The volume includes: Frequency-based glossary of common words, proper nouns, and Greek loan-words; Lists of consonantal homographs; Verbs arranged by paradigm and nouns arranged by stem; Words arranged by Part of Speech; Words arranged by root; Hebrew and Arabic cognate lists; List of compound words. Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament is an essential tool for students of Syriac, especially of the New Testament Peshitta.

Free Download George Anton Kiraz, "Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament: Third Expanded Edition "
English | ISBN: 146324603X | 2024 | 228 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament provides an essential tool to students of Syriac. A frequency-based glossary guides the student through the text of the Syriac New Testament’s most significant terms. In addition, verbal paradigms demystify the language’s structure, fostering a deeper understanding. The volume includes: Frequency-based glossary of common words, proper nouns, and Greek loan-words; Lists of consonantal homographs; Verbs arranged by paradigm and nouns arranged by stem; Words arranged by Part of Speech; Words arranged by root; Hebrew and Arabic cognate lists; List of compound words. Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament is an essential tool for students of Syriac, especially of the New Testament Peshitta.

Free Download Chinese Lexical Semantics: 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Chiayi, Taiwan, May 26-28, 2018, Revised Selected Papers by Jia-Fei Hong
English | PDF | 2019 | 828 Pages | ISBN : 3030040143 | 158.9 MB
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2018, held in Chiayi, Taiwan, in May 2018.

Free Download Renata Pípalová Päivi Pietilä, Katalin Doró, "Lexical Issues in L2 Writing"
English | ISBN: 1443880221 | 2015 | 250 pages | PDF | 950 KB
Research into lexical issues has been one of the most rapidly growing areas of second language acquisition studies in recent years, and understandably so: the importance of vocabulary can hardly be denied. Words are the key to every instance of communication, both spoken and written. This volume concentrates on vocabulary in written language, mostly in academic settings. The writers of the chapters come from different countries and universities, and, naturally, represent their own academic backgrounds, though they all share a common interest in investigating the characteristics of L2 lexis as it manifests itself in the written production of students at various stages of their language learning careers. The target language (L2) in the studies reported in the volume is English, except in one study on the lexical competence of multilingual learners of French. The subjects native languages include Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, and Swedish, thus representing several different language families. Each chapter constitutes an independent unit, but together the studies reported in them give the reader a varied and extensive picture of lexical issues in L2 writing. The authors approach their topics from different perspectives and use diverse research methods, adding to the multifaceted nature of the volume. The book will be of interest to researchers, educators and students of second language acquisition and applied linguistics.

Free Download Chinese Lexical Semantics: 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Chiayi, Taiwan, May 26-28, 2018, Revised Selected Papers by Jia-Fei Hong
English | PDF | 2019 | 828 Pages | ISBN : 3030040143 | 158.9 MB

Free Download Lexical Variation and Change: A Distributional Semantic Approach
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0198890672 | 337 Pages | PDF (True) | 8 MB
This book introduces a systematic framework for understanding and investigating lexical variation, using a distributional semantics approach. Distributional semantics embodies the idea that the context in which a word occurs reveals the meaning of that word. In contemporary corpus linguistics, that idea takes shape in various types of quantitative analysis of the corpus contexts in which words appear. In this book, the authors explore how count-based token-level semantic vector spaces, as an

Free Download Heinz J Giegerich, "Lexical Structures: Compounding and the Modules of Grammar "
English | ISBN: 0748624619 | 2015 | 152 pages | PDF | 807 KB
An original study of both structural entities originating in the lexicon, and the structural characteristics of the lexicon as a module of formal grammar, this book makes two contributions to our understanding of the formal grammar of English. Firstly, it presents a coherent theory of ‘compounding’ in English. There is a long-standing but unresolved dispute in the literature as to whether certain constructions (e.g. LONDON ROAD, DENTAL TREATMENT) are compound words or syntactic phrases. The question is important because in other cases the distinction is clear-cut (RING ROAD, FREE TREATMENT respectively), and because it impinges on central assumptions regarding the organisation of the grammar.Secondly, the book suggests an alternative to the commonly assumed sharp division of the grammar into the ‘lexicon’ and the ‘syntax’. The lexicon-syntax distinction facilitates important new insights in the nature of compounding in English. However, Heinz Giegerich argues that the Lexicalist assumption of a sharp divide between the modules cannot be upheld: the two modules overlap, such that there are constructions in English that are simultaneously compound and phrase. He suggests an alternative, tripartite, structure comprising three successive, and significantly overlapping, modules: the lexicon proper, the morphology and the syntax.The book illustrates a grammar that is rather different from that envisaged in Lexicalism (while still retaining that theory’s basic insights) and provides a better understanding of some of the most recalcitrant problems in English word formation.

Free Download Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates (Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics) by Antonio Fábregas
English | July 12, 2022 | ISBN: 1032260750 | 274 pages | PDF | 3.04 Mb
Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates provides the first comprehensive and empirically detailed theoretical analysis of the different ways in which Spanish builds verbs from nouns and adjectives.